x gaint eer eA tr a 1 ee ----_--_-- R.C.AF. Needs More Loftmen 60 Birdmen Have Answered Call To Train Pigeons Filly pigeon fanciers from coast to coast have answered the call af the Royal Canadian Alr- Force for 70 loftinen to man'/the R.O.A. ¥.'e newly-enlarged pigeon-division, Officials at Ottawa headquarters sald none of the men has been enlisted yet, pending full investi- gatlon of their records of ability, They described thé response as "good" but said. the R.C.AF is anxious to obtain more applicants, Response to the call, made sey. eral weoks ago, has been heaviest from Ontario, especially Toronto, Hamilton, and London. Edmonton leads the west but officials de- eeribed as "disappointing" the re- sponee from the Atlantic region. Age No Barrier The majority of the prospective recruits are men of more than 40 years of age. Recruiting officials . sald, however, that age is no bar- rlor, providing the men are In good health and willing to serve fn the isolated areas of Canada's east and west coasts, where the pigeon service is most needed, The men will traln pigeons to carry mapa and messages from patrol aircraft to their home bases. One of the difficulties of the recruiting officers Is to get de- tails of records made of birds flown by those applying for en- Hstment. Many of the men haye raced birds In the United King- dom but have no records on this alde of the Atlantic. Production of newspaper clippings on con- tests and flights helps solve the problem. NEXT! EL -- fai," id A Maori soldier from New Zealand cleans bayonet after hand-to-hand fighting with Ger- mans and Italians near El Ala- mein in North Africa. (Released by New Zealand legation.) King Haakon Hale Haakon VII of Norway -- the - King who was elected to his throne--observed his 70th birth- day on Aug. 3 in exile from his Nazi-ridden realm but still hale and tho active leader of Nor- way's fight against the "Axis, Norway is a big contributor to the Allied cause and her King, as vigorous and alert as most men much younger, is one of the busi- ost of the rulers who have found sanctuary in Britain, Most of Norway's 4,000,000 tons of merchant ships and the 80,000 men who sail them--all . who eluded the German conquer- or's grasp and many more who have since escaped--are serving in the Allies' cause. Her airmen are growing in number in active service against the Axis and a small army is ready for the day to try to drive the enemy out of its homeland. The People's King Haakon was drafted to be a Norwegian_37 years ago. . When Norway was separated amicably from Sweden in 1905, her throne--vacant for more than 600 years--first was offered to a Prince of Swedish royal blood who declined. Then it was offered to Prince Carl,. the second son of the then Crown Prince of Denmark who later became King Frederick VIII, - The. Prince had. a reputation as a progressive, democratic young scion of royalty, He answered that he would serve if the people of Norway - really: wanted him,' He insisted on a plebiscite, which voted for a monarchy 259,663 to 69,264. He took the name of Haakon VII, : ; To Norwegians, Haakon's sta- tare as a 'people's King" has grown since Hitler's armies over- ran their country but could not- t him to deal with their Quis- fin or to abdicate, mong them, his informality is Rainy They call on him by. scores to chat and he, with a special affection: for sailing men, - often joins Norse mariners in "meeting places thick with tobacco smoke and men's small talk, On 70th Birthday new 08 H HEBRIDES k _w. o NEW o CALEDONIA | aa Cm en im me South Pacific Seizing the offensive from the Japs, the United Nations have + Jaunched an attack of their own in the area mapped above. of the United States Pacific Fleet, assisted by units of the Souhwest Pacific, attacked in the Tulagi area of the Solomon Islands (1). At the same time, Allied air units under Gen. MacArthur's command attacked Jap bases in New Guinea at Salamaua and Lae (2) and Buna-Kokoda (3) and at Rabaul (4) in New Britain, Forces 2 SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON 34 JACOB'S VISION OF GOD.-- Genesis 27, 28. PRINTED TEXT, Genesis 28: 10-22. GOLDEN TEXT.--!. am with thee, and will keep thee whither- THE LESSON IN Time.---~This ovent.can he dated somewhere near 1760 B.C. Place.--The beginning of our story... 13 laid in Beersheba, in of Jacob takes place at Bethel, twelve miles north of Jerusalem. Jacob's Flight Beor-sheba, and went toward Har- an. 11. And he lighted certain placem=and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took one of tho stones "of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down In that place to sleep." Meditating much and praying much, Jacob had on this Journey drawn near to God, and is at last accepted. The Interest in Jacob's life lles in the gradual fmprovement and progress of his "character. Jacob's Dream 12. "And he dreamed; and, be- hold, a ladder sot up on the earth, and the top of It reached to heav- en; and, hehold, the angels of Qod ascending and descending on it. 13. And, behold, Johovah stood above It, and said, I-am Jchovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whercon thou Hest, to thee will 1 thy eced shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt: spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the "gouth: and In thee and in thy earth be blessed. 15. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee bring theo agaln into this land; for 1 will not leave thee, until I en to thee of." up to heaven. It tells him that engers of Elohim and descending,' of thelr thelr faith and hope and trust; and bringing down to them help and comfort and blessing. At the 'head of the ladder Jehovah him- self stands, The word is that used in chap. 24:13, and signifies that the Deity was not there accident- ally, but that He holds there His permanent "station. Finally, Je- hovah from His heavenly past confirms to Jacob all the prom. Ises made from the time when Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees, and assures him of His constant presence and protection, i Jacob's Awakening 16. "And Jacob awaked out of "his sleep, and he said, Surely Je- hovah is In this place; and I know sald, How dreadful is this place! this is none-other-than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven," Jacob did not say God came to me in the night, God has visited mo, God was here yester- night and now has gone, He did not awake to. the consclousness of a visit; He awoke to the con- sclousness of a presence. The was not that God visits man, but that God Js with man wherever he §8. We expect to meet Him fn in the marketplace, We look for soever thou goest. Genesiy 28:15. ITS SETTING "eouthern Palestine, but the dream - 10. "And Jacob went out from upon A "give It, and to thy seed; 14. and seed shall all the families of the whithersoeyer thou goest, and will have done that which I have spok- In his sleep Jacob sees a lad: der, or staircase, rising from the ground at his side, and reaching heaven and earth are united, and that there Is a way from ono to the other. Upon these stairs 'mess- are ascending carrying up to God men's prayers, and the tale wants and sorrows, of it not. 17. And he was afraid; and. thing that he found out that night the sanctuary; but He Is near us tha gleaming of the glory of Hla . faco at the holy shrine; but le 1s surely with us In the den of wick- edness. Not alone In tho sanctuary, but where the multitudes gather in deflance of His law; Ie is there. This 18 the truth to which Jacob ; awoke. - 18. "And Jacob rose up éarly in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under hls head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oll upon the top of it. 19, And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 20. And Jacob vowed a vow, say- ing, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21. so that I come again to my father's house "In peace, and Jehovah will-be my God, -22. then this stones, which I have set for a pillar, shall he God's house: and of all that thou ~ shalt give me 1 will surely give the tenth unto thee." Jacob's response to this Divine revelation shows that, in spite Qf everything, he had that in his soul which reach- ed out towards the Divine will, however unworthy and wrong were tho methods that he used. It Is a great thing that Jacob real- izes his need of God and that he makes this resolution, under what- ever condition, acknowledging God #8 his God and pledging himselt to God's service, Ten 1s the whole: a tenth is a share of the whole, The Lord re- celves one share as an ack- nowledgment of his sovereign right .to all. Here It is represented as the full share of the king who dwells with his subjects, Thus Jacob opens his heart, his home and his treasure to God. These are the simple" elements of the true religion, The spirit of pow- er ,and of love, and of a sound mind, his begun to reign in Jacob. Churchill Preparing Acgount Of War Prémier Churchill is reported to' be preparing his own account of the war, to be published when victory is wen. His method is to employ a staff of students to look up facts and figures and then, on the basis of notes supplicd by re- - search workers, he dictates at an astounding speed, The Premier's work"is set into type with extra wide margins which give him space in which to build his lucid expositions, Each sheet is scored with numerous corrections in Mr, Churchill's bold, legible handwriting to await the day when publication will be- come diplomatically possible , , . Mr, Churchill, incidentally stir- red many memories when he re- ferred in the House of Commons to war correspondents in Libya, He once was a war correspondent himself, sending dispatches on the Boer War to the Morning Post. During that campaign, Mr. Churchill was taken prisoner and despite his demands for release as f war correspondent was sent to an improvised concentration camp, Jt held him for three weeks befbre he passed boldly tho gates and walked into Pre- toria. Varsity Students T * Get Financial Aid -- Arrangements have been com- pleted between the University of Toronto and the 'Dominion Gov- ernment providing for loans, up "to a maximum of $300 a year, for any one student registered, in the second, third and fourth years in the departments of civil, me- chanical, electrical and metal- lurgical engineering, in engineer- ing physics, and in the arts de- partments of mathematics, physics and chemistry, it has been an- nouriced, The students must make their services available to Can- ada's war effort upon-graduation. THIS CURIOUS WORLD il 1 | By William Ferguson PF. BURGLAR, CANNOT BUY A UIMAMAY NA STORE / f A PRYING Ji TooL boEs Nor BECOME A fl imma" UNTIL I] CARRIED FOR oO THE YTUSKS OF AN CELERANT OR LOWER JAW P ANSWER: Upper. They are a2 0 J i 7% Zs GROW FROM THE UPPER r, COLLECTION OF 1,585 SUPERSTITIONS WAS MADE FROM THE BELIEFS OF ONE SINGLE PRAR/S 1 IN LOUISIANA. 4-2) « SA ; elongated and specialized upper Incisor teeth, growing downward from a point in front of the eye- within five yards of a sentry at RADIQ REPORTER DIALING WITH DAVE: Kathleen telling the boys the last bed-time story of the current holiday sca- Perhaps Stokes is son. At any rate, their return to the Canadian air-lanes is less than two wecks away--in fact, on Tuesday, September 1st, they all return at the usual time, 1.15 p.m. to bring to us one and all, that inimitable brand of fun and happiness that's made "The Hap- py Gang" Canada's outstanding day-time radio program! CKOC in Hamilton' will again be with the CBC Network in broadcasting their daily thirty-minute round of fun and merriment! > * * . The knot-hole kid, Charlie Mec- Carthy, and his stooge, Edgar Bergen, 'made $282,000.00 last year. This is more money than their broadcast time employers paid their three top ranking exe- cutives in the same period. The President of the Company drew only $75,000.00 -- so who says, it's dumb to be a dummy? And SCOUTING . . , Fifty Boy Scouts of the 1st and 2nd Woodstock, N.B. Scout Troops made "what probably is a salvage - record. In an all-day salvage drive, lasting. from 8 a.m. till midnight they filled a warchouse with used material of all kinds to the value of $600. The, first $100 recolved was presented to the Red Cross. The Scouts- launched the cam- palgn when adults failed to move, and are now handling it as the official salvage organization. - + + "I have several Boy Scouts in my Home Guard platoon, and I find that they "have come in al- ready half trained, due -to their having been Scouts."--Lord Hamp- ton.- * 9° 9 Following one of the German alr attacks napon. Bath, England, a Scoutmaster noticed a woman endeavouring to open the door of a still standing Boy Scout Head- quarters. To _his question sho ex- plained that her son, a former {--Bcout-of-the- Troop, had been loat | at sea, and that his photograph hung in an honoured place on the troop room wall. "I go in to look at Bob whenever I pass," she sald. +. 9 0 Twelve tons of salvage rubber were collected and shipped by the Boy. Scouts of South Porcupine, LE I An International Boy Scout camp held this summer at Youlbury, near Oxford, England, was attend- ed by Scouts of ten different coun- 1. tries, most of them*under the Nazi heel. - LE I Rev. Christopher ("Kit") 'Tan- ner, who saved the lives of 30 men by swimming backwards and for- wards between a sinking cruiser and a rescue ship off Crete, then died from exhaustion, was a Rov- er Scout of the 3rd Gloucester- shire Boy Scout Group. He was posthumously awarded the Scout Bronzo Cross. . LJ * An outstanding example of Boy Scout salvage work was offered by the Scouts of Warner, Alta. with the help of members of the Group Committee, They gathered 36 tons ~of metal-and two ed salvage, for which $497.44 was recelved, Of the amount $226 was sont to the Lethbridge Kinsmen's just for the record is the news that Bergen, McCarthy, Noble and Ameche will be on deck again-- ° Sunday nights 8.00 o'clock, on September Gth! * LJ * Last spring a new Canadian show took' the air-lanes; it was called "Penny's Diary," and out- lined "in hilarious dramatic fun, the escapades and adventures of young teen-age Penny Matthews agd her friends, Typically youth- ful, brimful of the fun and pranks of the typical teen-age, Penny's Diary caught on with its Thursday night Canadian audi- ence. The show returns among the first of the new September season, on September 4th, That's & FRIDAY night instead of the remembered Thursday night show, But the time is the same -- 8.30 p.m. -- and the show has been somewhat revamped to give even more play to its many fun possi- bilities. ' : * LJ * As radio goes into its greatest fall and winter, it steps out amidst grave events, demanding grave consideration and an even higher sense of duty than at any time in the past. 'News will be handled even more carefully -- patriotic programs will have more of the punch-of brutal reality to them-- 2 comedy will be real comedy to bring the necessary laughs and smiles to one and all; staffs of stations are being depleted--many of the ranks of the stars are los. ing men and women with almost alarming rapidity; thus, the sea- son will be a 'tough' one, for .those who do the broadcasting, put on the programs; and see to it that the well-oiled wheels of the nition's greatest. entertainment media keep moving steadily, The problems of your local station are much the same as those of the national broadcasters, and when you listen" in this fall, you will. do well to realize that in every in: stance, one man or one woman is probably doing the work two or three did in season's past, courage their effort and listen apprecmbly to the new radio sea- son! . * * For a singing treat, not in the Hit Parade, listen to John Charles Thomas, famous American bari- tone, doing his recorded version of the old Spiritual "Journey's End!" The Unexpected Several years ago, says the Christian Science Monitor, two prosperous New York business. men were taking in the sights of London. As sometimes happened with that type of visitor, they found much to criticize by com parison with things they had seen in America. Their disdain reached its height before the plain, unpretentious exterior of the Prime Minister's residence on" Downing street, "What a home for a Prime Minister!" one of them exclaimed. "Yes, and look at that car!" said the other. . : In front of the residence stood a small runabout, "Why, in New York, a grocery clerk' would be ashamed of own- ing nothing better," the other added. : Just then a well-dressed man came out, got in-the car and drove off, . 2 "Who was that?" the visitors asked a near-by. policeman, Mr. A. B. 'Oughton, the Hamer- ican Hambassador, sir," replied the bobby. ~ EXPERIENCED ACTRESS tT HORIZONTAL 1, 6 Pictured American actress. 13 Radio antenna. 15 To this. 16 Persia. 17 Mineral filled fissures. 19 The weft, 21 Fishing bags. 22 Gem weight, - 23 Caterpillar hair. 24 Period. ARAM LINO 25 One who runs 50 profound, ois arloads of mix." away. ~~~"51 Blunder. 30 Pigeon's cry. oe 0) 33 Propriety. 32 Mountain ash, = oc to sonfairier, 39 To mock. 33 Dutch (abbE). ings, | High tempera- 41 Exploit, . 34 Rowing paddle gg oo oo ture, 42 Tissue, 35 Newspaper 56 Bran ches ot 4 Sea eagles. 43 To box, '_ . paragraphs. earning." 5 Chinese 45 Bard. . 36And, learning." __. weight. 46 Senior (abbr.)) - - 37 Kind of snow- 57 She recently. 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